The Prince Charles Hospital Critical Care Research Group (CCRG) was founded in late 2004, as an association between all disciplines involved in the care of the critically ill, with a focus on local, national and international collaboration. The group is a multi-disciplinary team composed of medical, nursing, scientific and allied healthcare professionals. Medical disciplines include intensive care, cardiothoracic surgery, anaesthesia, transplant medicine, thoracic medicine, emergency medicine histopathology, and transfusion medicine. CCRG Laboratories In 2010 we were fortunate enough to have been provided with a permanent and dedicated laboratory space on the 3rd floor of the Clinical Sciences Building.

The CCRG science laboratory has been refurbished, and is now equipped for cell biology, immunology, transfusion technologies and cell culture work, as well as a dedicated microscopy area and top of the range microscopes. This facility and space will allow us to advance our research; support our increasing scientific activity and productivity, attract fulltime scientific staff, postgraduate students and local, national and international collaborators to participate in our research. Later that year, the biomedical engineering laboratory on the 1st floor of the Clinical Sciences Building was dismantled, then totally refitted and refurbished by Baulderstone and N. Stenning & Co. generously assisted in the equipping of the laboratory.